Republicans -- the Real Ones -- Win Big In Georgia, Sweeping the Suprme Court Races and Sending Raffensberger and His Grima Wormtounge Into Retirement

—Disinformation Expert Ace

First, the two Supreme Court races:

OSZ @OpenSourceZone

17h

Republicans sweep and win both Supreme Court Elections in Georgia tonight

🔴 Charlie Bethel: 51.6% ✅
🔵 Miracle Rankin: 48.4%

🔴 Sarah Hawkins Warren: 59.7% ✅
🔵 Jen Jordan: 40.3%

(85% Reporting)

I saw Black Conservative Perspective crowing that when Republicans bother to vote in these non-presidential years -- which we've been pretty bad about lately -- we win.

On to Secretary of State and chief vote-counter Brad Raffensperger, the Democrat plant who insisted that there was not a single fraudulent vote cast in Georgia in 2020.

He attempted to illegally hide his counting of the votes from outside observers, but was ordered to allow observers in by a judge:

LindellTV @RealLindellTV

May 19

🚨 BREAKING NEWS OUT OF GEORGIA: A Fulton County judge has officially ORDERED that Georgia State Election Board members be granted access to Brad Raffensperger's controversial "secret bunker" where statewide election results are aggregated.

The order, signed by Judge Earl Glanville, was filed this morning and marks a major victory for election transparency advocates after months of backlash over the locked-down facility being hidden from board members, candidates, and the public.

"There should be equal access and transparency for everyone." - @1stVCGAGOP

Grubbs also raised serious concerns about @GaSecofState allies allegedly having insider access to election operations while election integrity advocates and even board members were shut out.

She further accused Raffensperger of placing election workers in difficult legal territory by reportedly visiting county election offices while actively running for governor - citing Georgia election law restrictions on candidates being present around ballot processing operations.

"If Georgia's elections are truly the cleanest and most transparent in the country... why keep this place secret?"

Massive development in Georgia election oversight.

Update: Piper says the judge rescinded that TRO, so the secret vote counting is back on, at least unless he decides otherwise at an upcoming hearing.

Raffensperger was running to be the "Republican" candidate for governor.

Republicans rejected him like he was Tom Massie asking them if they're "swingers."

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger became the latest enemy of President Donald Trump's to lose a Republican primary on Tuesday.

Billionaire Rick Jackson and Lt. Gov. Burt Jones advanced to a runoff election for the GOP nomination for Georgia governor -- locking out Raffensperger, who rose to prominence defending Georgia's 2020 election results but struggled to gain traction among his party's increasingly MAGA base.

Raffensperger's defeat is another sign of Trump's grip on the GOP, following the president's wins ousting state Republican senators who clashed with him over redistricting in Indiana and Sen. Bill Cassidy's loss in Louisiana on Saturday.

But the runoff also prolongs an already rancorous and expensive primary by several weeks. Jackson, a political newcomer who entered the race late but quickly rose in the polls, and Jones, who boasts Trump's endorsement, are both courting the same MAGA voters.

Raffensperger's hand-picked toadie Gabe Sterling was meanwhile running to fill his position as chief Democrat vote-rigger.

This is amazing:

Election Wizard @ElectionWiz

Gabe Sterling (Raffensperger's right hand at the GA Secretary of State) just lost the GOP primary for the job. In 2020 he was on TV insisting there was NO fraud. Then it turned out someone had fraudulently voted using his own home address. Tonight MAGA returned the favor.

Students of physiognomy will be interested to learn that he looks like Karl Rove's jerksock came to life and developed gynecomastia.

This fat pile of old dusty cum was a apparently a star witness for the Pelosi/Cheney J6 committee, providing false claims about zero ballots being double-scanned (and counted twice).

No Longer Propped Up by the American Taxpayer, Communist Former-State Media NPR Will Cut 300 Jobs

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Oh no!

NPR is slashing jobs and restructuring its newsroom as the public-radio giant grapples with a financial crunch fueled by federal funding cuts, weakening station revenue and dramatic changes in how Americans consume news.

The nonprofit broadcaster told staff this week that roughly 300 employees, mostly on newsgathering desks, are eligible for voluntary buyouts as executives scramble to close an $8 million budget gap.

NPR management expects only about 30 employees to accept the buyouts voluntarily, meaning layoffs in the 425-strong newsroom could follow if too few workers opt in.

The downsizing comes during a grim moment for the news biz, with the Washington Post seeing brutal cuts and CBS News launching layoffs earlier this year.

But they're not in the news business. They're in the propaganda business.

Fox manages just fine in the news business.

Communists should try reporting news rather than Party Doctrines.

NPR's crisis traces back at least to last summer, when Congress voted to eliminate roughly $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, dealing a massive blow to local stations that pay NPR for programming.

Though NPR has long said direct federal grants account for less than 1% of its budget, the organization depends heavily on fees from member stations, many of which are now under severe financial strain.

They lied and said "we only get 1% of our funding from the federal government." Yet when that "only 1%" is cut, they're forced to fire 300 of their 425 "news gatherers."

Liars.

Democrat Who Won the Most Votes for the Primary for Texas' 35th District Wants to Create Concentration Camps for "Zionists" and Forcibly Castrate Them

—Disinformation Expert Ace

That's not an exaggeration, that's her policy program as announced on her Instagram page.

Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_

Maureen Galindo, a Democrat running for Congress in TX-35, says in an Instagram post that she would turn an ICE detention center near San Antonio "into a prison for American Zionists", and will also use it as a castration processing center for pedophiles, "which will probably be most of the Zionists".

Yes, it's real, and yes the post is still up. She has a runoff election next week.

In other posts on her Instagram, Galindo claims that her runoff opponent, Johnny Garcia, was part of a human trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by "billionaire Zionist Jews."

She did not outright win the primary, as she did not hit 50%, but she won most of the votes. She will now face another Democrat in a runoff.

An article:

Controversy-tarred congressional candidate Maureen Galindo this week pledged to transform a site south of San Antonio now used by the Trump administration to detain migrants into an internment camp for "American Zionists."

"She'll turn Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers for human trafficking," Galindo wrote in an Instagram post over the weekend, referring to herself in the third person. "It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists."

Galindo's latest set of inflammatory remarks comes as the Democratic hopeful for Texas' newly redrawn 35th Congressional District continues to draw national attention for remarks critics have called antisemitic and untethered from reality. The controversy is snowballing as she heads into the May 26 Democratic primary runoff.

Over the past week, Galindo has accused her runoff opponent -- former Bexar County Public Information Officer Johnny Garcia -- of participating in a human trafficking conspiracy orchestrated by billionaire zionist Jews. She also pledged during a Texas Public Radio interview to put Garcia on trial for treason.

Beyond her attacks on Garcia, Galindo has continued to promote the narrative that a cabal of Jewish zionists controls Hollywood, the media and even local politicians.

Jake Tapper is right now pondering how to turn this into a political attack piece on Republicans.

Two Great Snap-Backs

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Thomas Massie Has No Constituency and Leaves No Legacy

—Disinformation Expert Ace

In the last weeks of his doomed campaign, Tom Massie made explicit what he had previously been coy about: He was a full-blown Nazi.

He invited open Hitler fans and Holocaust deniers on to the campaign trail with him, and into his home:

He also pulled off the mask and revealed he was a man of the left all along. Dana Loesch tried to book him on the show. His press fag said "No," flatly, with no explanation.

But he did make time to appear as a guest on the podcast of Noted Conservative Pundits Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian.

When he spoke to his Nazi supporters after his loss, he made his antisemitism clearer still, stating that he would have come out sooner, but it took time to locate his opponent "in Tel Aviv."

He then debuted his upcoming podcast by accusing the Jews of having "bought" his seat out from under him.

Note that Massie spent just as much money as his opponent, and that most of Massie's money came from out of state donors or out of country donors. Many of his donors were leftwingers in California, and many of them are pro-Hamas Muslims.

But but but Muh AIPAC. America First or whatever.

He also claimed he had conducted himself "with honor" and had not thrown a "single foul ball," which... doesn't make sense. You can throw a strike and you can throw a ball but you can't throw a foul ball. You hit a foul ball.

So he's a Gay Nerd Who Doesn't Watch Baseball, too.

Really? Not a single foul ball?

Jordan Schachtel
@JordanSchachtel

14h

Don't forget that Massie pulled a last gasp fraud play to try to trick voters into thinking that Trump endorsed him for reelection. When the pressure was on, he showed what kind of person that he's become. What an ugly way to go out.

A few accounts reminded me that Massie was a jock-sniffer for liberal California Speaker Kevin McCarthy -- along with MTG, of course -- and seemed to have spiraled after his Fren got booted out of power, determined to avenge him against the entire Republican Party.

What a prickly, fussy, hyper-emotional "man."

After Massie further accused SEAL hero Ed Gallrein of being an ISRAELI ASSET -- does anyone remember the RUSSIAN AGENT hoax? -- Gallrein had enough and blasted him.

Overton
@overton_news

Trump-backed Ed Gallrein just unloaded on Rep. Thomas Massie after his win.

He said Massie wasn't voting against Trump -- he was voting against the very people who elected him.

GALLREIN: "Simply put, what we'd say in Kentucky because I'm pretty plain spoken, is he went to Washington, he burned every bridge, he burned a bridge factory and ran off everybody that would build a bridge to the conservative Republicans."

"Again, the left-wing Democrats, the radical Democrats loved him."

"His votes against our party and our nation go farther back."

"I want to add one thing, Sean, for you and the viewers, and our conservative Republican friends out there..."

"Remember, it wasn't just President Trump. President Trump won nearly 78 million votes in the presidential race. The most ever for a Republican president."

"He won 31 states, including the swing states and also 312 electoral votes."

"And here in this district, President Trump won by 85%."

"He stood against us! But he liked to single out President Trump."

"All that to say it's a new day, these people deserve better and I'm going to give it to them."

He had a positive message as well. And he didn't even thank Bibi Netanyahu or the Mossad a single time.

Ed Gallrein @EdGallrein

1h
As I reflect on yesterday's victory, I want to begin by thanking President Donald J. Trump for his support, confidence, and unwavering commitment to fighting for our country and the America First movement.

I am deeply humbled and honored by the trust the people of Kentucky have placed in me. This victory belongs to the hardworking patriots across our Commonwealth who believe in faith, freedom, secure borders, strong families, and putting America first.

To every voter, volunteer, supporter, and friend who stood with our campaign -- thank you. Thank you for your prayers, sacrifice, encouragement, and belief in our mission. I will never forget the support you showed my family and me throughout this journey.

Over the course of this campaign, I had the privilege of meeting thousands of Kentuckians from every walk of life -- veterans, farmers, first responders, small business owners, workers, parents, and young people hopeful for the future of our nation. Your stories inspired me every single day.

The Navy SEAL Teams taught me that no mission is accomplished alone. Success requires trust, teamwork, discipline, and people willing to fight side by side for something greater than themselves. I saw that same spirit throughout this campaign, from the farms and small towns of Kentucky to the incredible grassroots team that poured their hearts into this race.

While yesterday was a victory worth celebrating, there is still much work to be done. The real mission begins now. I will fight every day to serve the people of Kentucky, support President Trump's agenda, strengthen our country, and never forget the trust you placed in me.

Thank you again for this incredible honor. I am ready to get to work.

May God bless each of you, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the United States of America 🇺🇸

Wednesday Morning Rant

—Joe Mannix

The Left is defined by predictability. They are so predictable that they put the Cesium clock at NIST to shame. Once the Left latches onto some rationalization or another, it will never, for any reason, ever back down from it. Whatever the idea was, no amount of evidence or counter-evidence will ever change the position. After the position is taken and codified, it is immutable. At most, the Left will abandon one implementation of an idea - but never the idea itself.

Once of these ideas that never, ever goes away is the absurdist notion that creating officially approved venues for criminal activity will reduce that criminal activity outside of those venues. Ace mentioned a new one on this front yesterday, where some cities are making designated venues for wilding teens in the hopes that it will be appealing enough to prevent the feral youth from committing crimes elsewhere. This is absurd, of course, but it is also utterly unsurprising. This is always the answer to crimes committed by preferred groups.

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Third-Class Carriage
Honoré Daumier

The Morning Report — 5/ 20/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. Let's start off with the cancerous existential threat that is the Anti-American Left and its epicenter the Democrat party. I'm beyond revolted and horrified to the point of being apoplectic and blood-boiling enraged at this as anyone with even a scintilla of common decency and an understanding of history and human nature would and should be.

The top Democrat in a southern Texas House race, sex therapist Maureen Galindo, has called for transforming an immigration facility into a “prison for American Zionists” equipped with a castration center.

Galindo’s campaign made a vile pledge that she will introduce legislation to that effect if she gets elected to Congress after baselessly alleging her Dem runoff foe was “being paid to put Jews and Mexicans in concentration camps via Zionist trafficking networks.”

“When Maureen gets into Congress, she’ll write legislation so that all Zionism and support of Zionism is undoubtedly Anti-Semitic, since it’s Zionism harming the Semites,” her campaign wrote on Instagram last week.The sex therapist candidate called to transform an ICE facility into a prison for American Zionists.

Yet her remarks about dumping Zionists into an ICE facility sound a lot like putting Jews in warehouses.

“The standard that Democrats rightly apply to right-wing antisemites must apply equally to left-wing Jew-haters,” the watchdog group StopAntisemitism said in a statement. “Democratic leaders must clearly, publicly denounce these bigots infecting their party without hedging.

“They must decline to appear on platforms with Hasan Piker. They must stop winking at extremist voices and truly stand for the principles they claim to stand for.”

Galindo was the top Democrat in the March primary election, with 29.2% support to Garcia’s 27%. Since no one got a majority, the two advanced to a runoff election next Tuesday. . .

. . .Throughout the campaign cycle, Galindo has railed against Zionists. She’s also attacked “Jews who own Hollywood,” something that is a well-known anti-Semitic trope.

I wonder if Galindo came up with that brainwave about forcibly castrating Jews all on her own or if she stole it directly from the minutes of the 1942 Wannsee Conference regarding the Nazis Final Solution of the Jewish Question?!

For those who do not know, before they decided to exterminate the roughly 11 million Jews of Europe they expected to be under their control once they conquered Europe from the Channel to the Urals, they thought those that wouldn't be worked to death building roads and munitions would have their genitals bombarded with X-rays so they could be sure no Jews would survive. The mass shootings of the Einzatzgruppen were viewed as too cruel — not for the victims but for the executioners, you see

Graham Platner's Totenkopf tattoo is vile enough (and that he's a literal jerk-off!) but this evil slag is illustrative now of a growing segment of not just the leadership of the Democrat Party but far too many in its base.

On further reflection, I don't think Galindo is aware of the details of Wansee let alone the reality of the extermination of over 6 million Jews as well as other racial or political enemies of the Nazis. I think she dreamed up mass sterilization all on her own.

Let's face the unsettling truth in that she is not an outlier or one-off. She is not only a Leftist but one who is seeking political office and has the backing of the Democrat Party leadership.

Shredding the Constitution and erasing our history is merely the first step. Ultimately, they know that they will have to eradicate us physically in order to make sure we never rise again.

So, if this Galindo cancer were to be struck by a bolt of lightning or were to accidentally blow herself up in a tax-evasion scheme or Hamas bomb factory...

or be hit by a bus crossing the street or get a reverse Luigi Mangione treatment (nudge nudge wink wink) I would not shed a tear and in fact would roundly applaud it.

I do not condone violence. But waiting until after we're forced to wear a yellow star is a non-starter. My own family's World War 2 experience is now underscored by Democrat/Leftist acts of political and physical terrorism in its lust for absolute power.
Something must be done to stop this and stop them. Appealing to the better angels of their nature, forget it . . . they have none. Evil must be confronted and eradicated.

For bringing us to the brink of the abyss, there isn't a Hell hot enough for them to roast in.

Elsewhere ,
Last night looked to be a good night for the President and the conservative movement in general with several key primary victories. Most gratifying of all was the kicking to the curb of scumbag deluxe Tom Massie.

And then there's still Iran:

Citing the leaders of Qatar, ­Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, he said “serious negotiations with Iran are now taking place” and expressed confidence in a deal which he vowed “will include “NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOR IRAN.”

So okay, but I'm still waiting for the OR ELSE part of this to take effect. As of now it sure seems as if President Trump is doing the Obama red line boogaloo. Feh.

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• “When Maureen gets into Congress, she’ll write legislation so that all Zionism and support of Zionism is undoubtedly Anti-Semitic, since it’s Zionism harming the Semites,” her campaign wrote on Instagram last week.
  Sex therapist Dem candidate blasted over vile call to convert ICE facilities into camps for ‘American Zionists’ with castration center

• Attorneys have First Amendment rights, just like everyone else.
  John Eastman’s Disbarment in California Is an Outrageous Violation of the First Amendment Warranting Supreme Court Review

Daily Tech News 20 May 20206

—Pixy Misa

• Google search is dead, says... Google. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Professor Plum in the library with a lead pipe?
  
  Or just Google being Google.
  
  Anyway, the plan is, now that Google has killed its premier product through years of malign neglect, to force you into an AI "experience" any time you want to look something up.
  
  One small problem: I already have Grok for that, and it doesn't try to sell me stuff I don't want, and most of the time it doesn't like to me either.
  
  The secondary is problem is that behind the scenes Grok is using search engines like Google to pull related data together to answer your query. You can even watch it doing that - if you have SuperGrok (my company pays for it because it saves a lot of time we used to spend digging through Stack Overflow) you can watch it spin up three different agents that perform different searches and argue about the correct answer - and oftentimes even get it right.
  
  So the question is, if the underlying search engines go away, what happens to the AI experience? Does it go the way of the nudged quanta in the single data drawer among the galaxy of indexes of indexes?
  
  

Tuesday Overnight Open Thread - May 19, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

From Pure Nature

Howdy Hordelings! The Tuesday ONT is here and ready to whelm you. Open thread, as always. What's on YOUR mind tonight?

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Oh no - PETA is upset

PETA Raises Concerns About Lopez's Preakness Ride; Laurel Stewards Reviewing Footage

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has raised concerns about the winning Preakness ride by Paco Lopez on Napoleon Solo, suggesting that Lopez raised his whip above his helmet on three different occasions before striking his horse, in violation of HISA regulations.

HISA announced Monday night that they were investigating the concerns.

“The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) is aware of the concerns raised regarding Paco Lopez's ride in the referenced race at Laurel Park,” the organization wrote in an email. “In accordance with the standard regulatory process, the Stewards at Laurel will review the race footage and all relevant facts to determine whether any action is warranted under HISA's riding crop rules. We will defer to the Stewards' independent review and adjudication process and will not comment further while that review is ongoing.”

Look, I'm not saying I don't care about the horsey. But I am saying PETA is asshoe.

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Speaking of asshoe - the NAACP tries to stay relevant

NAACP calls for boycott of Southern college sports programs over voting rights

The NAACP and Congressional Black Caucus are calling on Black athletes and fans to boycott the athletic programs of public universities in states that are taking steps that the nation’s oldest civil rights group says are restricting Black voting rights.

Launched on Tuesday, the NAACP’s “Out of Bounds” campaign urges current and prospective Black athletes, their families, alumni and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from major public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation.”

If Black athletes participate in the boycott, it could deplete rosters for powerhouse football and basketball programs across the Southeastern Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference.

The NAACP’s campaign calls out Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas and South Carolina as states to boycott, arguing that the athletic programs of those states’ major universities are especially reliant on Black athletic talent and should protect Black political interests.

Sorry, NAACP - your race card is denied.

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Spelling matters!

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Have you heard of the "3 bite rule"?

This lady had heard of some weird eating rule called the "Three Bite Rule". Apparently, you're allowed to eat 3 bites of anything indulgent that you want and it should be enough to get rid of the craving.

Now, I have no idea who made up this rule. But I must say she gave it… pic.twitter.com/8iN6EQrP1C

— AllieJade (@AllieJade1) May 18, 2026

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 05-17-2026

AoSHQ Commenter Statistics:
Number of posts: 88
Number of comments: 21125
Number of unique hashes: 1589

Top 10 commenters:
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Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
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Close it up

Massie Be Gone Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

@JooBernardoCor1

Might be Portugal, based on his other photos.

Cool costume. Or it would be, if Star Wars weren't for Gay Nerds.

Rescuing a gosling.

I've never seen regret like the look on the face of this lizard.

Shaving a cat's belly.

Aw, depressed doodle. Buck up little feller!

MISSILE X-ING.

Super leap.

Cat cam.

This is why they call mantas "the Bunnies of the Sea."

Goodbye Massie: Decision Desk Projects Ed Gallrein will be the Republican Nominee for KY-4
Fox Calls It Too

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Fox just called it for Gallrein.

Posted by: JackStraw (hophead)

Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, hey-ey-ey, goodbye...

Henry Olsen
@henryolsenEPPC

44m

Very bad sign for Massie: Gallrein leads by 10% in the copious early vote from Kenton. This is where Massie needed to win big.

NBC News is noticing underperformance for Massie and overperformance for Gallrein in rural areas.

Posted by: whig

@EricLDaugh

25m

🚨 JUST NOW: NBC reports that Ed Gallrein is out-performing SENATE candidate Andy Barr in some Kentucky locations, who was also endorsed by Trump

Gallrein is winning the early and election day vote in key counties, with more expected to come in

Massie needs election day strength to flip the race

Posted by: whig

And they called the race for Andy Barr, commenters report.

Massie's army of RaNd PaUl!!! spammers and Middle Eastern bots are insisting that his posting of a 2022 endorsement with the date stripped off while pretending it's a current endorsement was Akshually True In a Way, If You Think About It.

Quick Hits

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Some of you are approaching 29 years old and so might have learned that any time a Republican defeats a Democrat, it's an Assault on Democracy (TM), and Democrats rush to change the law to forbid whatever fascist factors caused Democracy to Die in Darkness.

The fan-made pro-Spencer-Prat ads are funny, and are persuading people, so Democrats have decided that these are "AI Deep Fakes" which are tricking the stupid sheep voters into believing that Karen Bass is the Joker, Kamala Harris is the Riddler, and Spencer Pratt is some kind of hybrid Superman/Batman superhero.

The people must be protected against this kind of RUSSIAN Misinformation.

So they're agitating to ban all fan-made AI ads:

Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger

5h

Governments should censor AI "deep fake" videos, many say, because they threaten democracy. But there is no evidence they ever have. The reason legacy gatekeepers are panicking is that AI disrupts their business model and fuels underdogs like LA mayoral candidate @spencerpratt

AI-generated "deepfake" photos and videos, like the ones being put out by supporters of Los Angeles Mayoral candidate @spencerpratt, are a threat to democracy, say many. "These Pratt social videos are catchy but...they are also 100% deep fakes," said political consultant @murphymike. "In fact, Pratt for Mayor is the most AI deep fake-driven campaign I've ever seen.... There is no disclaimer on them. They're not officially from his campaign... not sure who's paying for this stuff."

The people think that Kamala Harris is the Riddler who drives around in a Riddlermobile?

The ads depict LA as a post-apocalyptic hellhole. This is obviously a parody that no one believes.

Wait a tic... they do believe this.

But they recognize the AI ads as an exaggeration of the truth.

...

Deepfakes, argued the Brookings Institution in 2023, "threaten to undermine" the "trusted information environment" democracies depend on. "Government needs to step up to protect elections from AI-generated deepfake video and audio," demanded the progressive Brennan Center in 2024. Stanford researchers warned that political deepfakes remain easy to generate and difficult to detect.

I personally had little difficulty telling the difference between the Castroist Communist Incompetent Karen Bass and the fictitious comic book character The Joker. I mean, they do share an ideology of chaos and misery, but they are plainly distinct.

Governments are acting. State legislatures have targeted election speech, satire, and political ads that use altered images or voices.

But the facts do not support deepfake alarmism, which activists, journalists, and policymakers are using to impose censorship.

The Spencer Pratt advertisements are obviously fake...

And a 2025 Cambridge paper on deepfakes and democracy concluded that, despite years of warnings, "there is no evidence" that deepfakes have produced the predicted election interference.

The idea that Pratt's viral AI-made ads undermine democracy is absurd. Filmmaker @charliebcurran produced a 99-second Batman-themed AI-made ad on May 5, 2026.

The ad depicts Mayor Karen Bass in Joker makeup, Governor Gavin Newsom dressed as a male Marie Antoinette eating cake, former Vice President Kamala Harris chugging vodka while declaring "Bass already solved crime, I endorse her," and Councilmember Nithya Raman as a puppet saying "let's move the drug addicts closer."

As such, the Pratt ads make the fraud theory of political deepfakes even harder to sustain. A nonpartisan researcher told CBS Sacramento that "as far as we know, Spencer Pratt is not Batman." Noted one strategist, "the Spencer Pratt spot is exactly what AI should be, which is using innovation and technology to make an interesting ad that is not trying to fool voters."

So why all the deep fake alarmism?...

Because Democrats are losing and that means Democracy Has Failed Yet Again.

Post here with a video report.

Here's another ad. Most people can tell that this is a humorous ad. And this ad featuring Spencer Pratt as a Lego character in a Lego LA sure is deceptive. You and I may know that real people aren't made of Legos, but some people -- Democrat voters -- might be stupid enough to believe it's all really real. And we must Protecc Retards.

Note the people complaining that ads showing a Lego Spencer Pratt must be criminalized because their retard voters might think they're real are the exact people who have pushed the Very Fine People Hoax for ten years straight.

Three months ago, Thomas Massie -- who today lied to voters and claimed a 2022 endorsement was a current endorsement -- smeared Trump as part of the "(((Epstein Class)))."

If you don't think he's trying to smear Trump as a Dirty Jew Sympathizer, you haven't seen him claiming that only (((outside))) Jewish money is causing him to lose his race. Meanwhile, Massie is funded by California far-leftists and Middle Easterners. America First, baby!

Weird how none of Massie's fervent internet defenders can keep the word "Jew" out of their mouths for a single sentence:

Update: Unbelievable. Trump told Massie to take down the false endorsement and Massie doubled down and posted another fake endorsement.

See, he's funny. He's a funny Democrat Nazi.

Cavernous Nostril Now Glazes The Man She Used to Accuse of Having Sexually Molested Her Underaged Niece, Back When That Was Her Grift

—Disinformation Expert Ace

But her new grift is antisemitism and cultivating a Nazi-curious Horseshoe Fusion political movement.

I'm so annoyed I'll even link a Jake Tapper post (just for the clip he's embedded).

It's almost as if Cavernous Nostrils is a sociopath who will say literally anything to manipulate people and extract money from them.

Disgraceful RINO Grifter Tom Massie is Now Sending Out Texts Claiming Trump Endorsed Him Rather Than His Opponent

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Fuck this guy in the pinecone.

Sociopaths love lying to people. Duping people makes them feel powerful and intelligent and masterful.

When actually they're just degenerates who do not possess the simple but powerful moral inhibition against lying that normal people do.

Because normal people have trouble lying, they have difficulty detecting truly brazen lies by psychopaths completely unbothered by lying. Normal people who are bothered personally by lying cannot even imagine just lying about big things that can be easily checked, so brazen sociopaths can pass lies by them sometimes.

"No one would be so brazen," they think, wrongly.

And then Candace Owens dupes millions of normal but bored and dimbulb Millennial housewives who think she must be telling the truth because, well, no one would be so brazen!

Candace Owens makes her rent money based on this exploit. Most normal people think that someone will, if they're lying, avert their eyes and cough and show other signs of internal stress, so they think that they can detect most lies.

Well, they can detect most liars because most liars are normal people who do experience internal stress when they're lying.

Then there are the psychopaths like Candace Owens and Tom "Pinecone" Massie, who do not stammer and blink when they lie, but grin ear-to-ear because they love lying. Normal people do not detect these lies because, well, what kind of maniac would become almost sexually excited by lying?

They think it's their superpower.

And it is, in a way. It's a gift of Satan.

Katy Tur: When Speaker Mike Johnson Said That God Imbues People With Inalienable Rights, Was He Attempting to "Put God Over the Declaration of Independence"?

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Katy Tur is a moderately pretty girl with a nice rack.

That is the only reason she is on TV "news."

Keith Olbermann used to sleep with her and claimed that she was so stupid that he had to rewrite all of "her" news articles for her, because they were poorly written and pointless. Typical case of an old bent gangly dweeb having to do the hot girl's homework for her.

But I do imagine that he's telling the truth about this one thing.

Katy Tur heard Speaker Johnson refer to the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence -- the lines that say that men are imbued with inalienable rights by their "Creator," rights which cannot be set aside by the government because they do not originate with the government, but with God himself -- and is so uneducated and so stupid that she thought Johnson was inserting that language into the Declaration of Independence himself, and thereby attempting to inject This God Person into the atheistic document.

Unbelievable. Except it is believable.

John Sexton:

I guess it shouldn't come as a surprise given that this was broadcast on MSNOW, but somehow it still surprises me. Katy Tur was asking her panel of guests about something that Speaker Mike Johnson had said Sunday at the "Rededicate 250" rally on the mall in Washington, DC.

I watched Mike Johnson's prayer in front of the crowd and this is the line that Tur is reacting to:

Those voices have seeked to distort the self-evident truth that we know so well, that our founders boldly proclaimed in the Declaration: That our rights do not derive from the government. They come from you, our creator and heavenly father.

Here's Tur's reaction when bringing it up on MSNOW to her panel of guests.

What about this passage from Mike Johnson declaring that our rights do not derive from government? They come from you, our creator and heavenly father. Is this him putting God over the Declaration of Independence?

This is not some arcane political trivia, obviously. These are among the most-quoted lines in human political history. "When in the course of human events..." is routinely quoted by sixth graders.

Katie Tur is entirely unqualified for this job or any other job that isn't centered on an OnlyFans account. She got the gig by fucking Keith Olbermann, and only kept it because 10% of MSNOW's audience consists of angry lesbians and even a smattering of effeminate yet straight men who wonder what she looks like naked.

Trump Endorses Ken Paxton for Senate

—Disinformation Expert Ace

It's a bit late but hopefully it will swing enough votes to put another RINO out on the street outside of MSNOW begging to go on camera for five minutes to pitch his podcast.

Correction: The runoff is next Tuesday, not today as I originally claimed. (I saw a stupid media article saying the runoff was "this week," yesterday.)

Thanks to hobbitpoly.

Nick Sortor @nicksortor

🚨 BREAKING -- IT'S OFFICIAL: President Trump has endorsed KEN PAXTON in the Republican primary for US Senate in Texas

John Cornyn is DOOMED.

"I know Ken well, have seen him tested at the highest and most difficult levels, and he is a WINNER! Ken is a Strong Supporter of TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER and, very importantly, THE SAVE AMERICA ACT"

More:

The Highly Respected Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, an America First Patriot, and someone who has always been extremely loyal to me and our AMAZING MAGA MOVEMENT, is running for the United States Senate, to represent a place I love and WON, BIG, three times, with 6.4 Million Votes in 2024 (The Most Votes in the History of the State, BY FAR)!

I know Ken well, have seen him tested at the highest and most difficult levels, and he is a WINNER! Ken is a Strong Supporter of TERMINATING THE FILIBUSTER and, very importantly, THE SAVE AMERICA ACT, something which polls at 87%, including Dumocrats, and yet can't seem to get approved. Perhaps Ken can help move these important elements of Government forward because with the Filibuster, as an example, the Democrats will terminate it on their First Day in Office, giving us two extra States, D.C. and Puerto Rico, and a greatly enlarged Supreme Court of the United States, probably going with their Dream Number of 21 Justices from the 9 that we currently have -- And these new Justices will be Radical Left Lunatics! Two years ago, our Country was DEAD -- Now we have the "HOTTEST" Country anywhere in the World -- And I want to keep it that way. Ken Paxton will help me do that, MAKING AMERICA BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE!

Ken is a true MAGA Warrior who has ALWAYS delivered for Texas, and will continue to do so in the United States Senate. He will tirelessly fight to continue the Great Growth of our Economy, Cut Taxes and Regulations (I just delivered the Largest Tax and Regulation Cuts in American History!), and Advance MADE IN THE U.S.A., Unleash American Energy DOMINANCE, Champion Texas Oil & Gas, Advocate for our Amazing Farmers and Ranchers, Promote School Choice, Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime, Support our Incredible Military/Veterans, Safeguard our Elections, and Protect our always under siege Second Amendment.

John Cornyn is a good man, and I worked well with him, but he was not supportive of me when times were tough and, despite having the Most Successful Economy in the History of our Country during my First Term and, with all of the many other things that I accomplished (Secure Border, Military Dominance, Space Force, All Time High Stock Markets and 401(k)s, Record Job and Economic Growth, and so many other things that would be impossible to readily list!), which are considered by many to be legendary, John was very late in backing me in what turned out to be a Historic Run for the Republican Nomination, and then, the Presidency, itself, both of which were Landslide Victories and, more importantly, gave us the Country that we have today -- THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA (and when we finish up with Iran, which will not be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon, you will see numbers that have never been generated by our Country before!), as opposed to the DISASTER of the previous Administration.

Ken Paxton has gone through a lot, in many cases, very unfairly, but he is a Fighter, and knows how to WIN. Our Country needs Fighters, and also Loyalty to the Cause of Greatness. We can never allow what happened to the United States of America during the Corrupt Biden Administration, to happen again. In Texas alone, just look at the Border, with the Highest Level Criminals allowed to run through your State, totally unvetted and unchecked, through an Open Border Policy that was a Laughingstock all over the World. I came in, and fixed it, IMMEDIATELY. I will not permit those dark and dangerous days to come back! WE HAVE ALREADY MADE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, BUT NOW, WE WANT TO MAKE OUR NATION BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE. Therefore, Ken Paxton has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next United States Senator from the Great State of Texas -- KEN PAXTON WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!

Should have passed the SAVE Act, Thune.

I cannot overstate how important and salutary it is to establish that the voters will discipline and eject nonperforming office-holders who do not vote the way the voters want them to. If this becomes a permanent trend, it will be one of the most important accomplishments of the Trump years.

"Teen Takeovers" Are Now Common in Blue Cities; Media Begins Pushing Idea That Violent Teen Orcs Don't Need Jail Time, Just "Youth Centers" They Can Fight In and Destroy Instead of Chipotles

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Blue cities have allowed rowdy, often violent "teens" to take over the streets and private citizens' businesses for more than a year.

The "teens" are often "mostly peaceful."

Blue cities do not arrest them or prosecute them because they've decided that minorities, especially "teen" minorities, are generally immune to the law.

And how's that going?

A gang of violent juveniles has been captured on video involved in a wild all-out brawl in a Washington, DC, Chipotle outlet Saturday night with chairs alternatively being thrown and used as weapons as the wild melee unfolded.

In the background shrieks can be heard from those forced to watch the delinquent fisticuffs on display.

A spokesperson with the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has since said they are aware of this incident and are investigating, ABC 7News reports.

Ken Ledet, who lives in the Navy Yard, told 7News he has seen chaotic scenes like this in recent months.

"It's not shocking anymore, since this has become routine on Saturdays and Friday nights, but it's disappointing to know this is still happening," Ledet told the outlet.

This is feral:

The Morning Rant

—CBD

"America First" isn't just a tag line. It distills a very simple idea that has been lost for a very long time. In fact, it is best seen as a warning to the gaggle of politicians and pundits whose every waking hour is consumed by the notion of a new world order that supersedes the normal human condition of nationalism and patriotism.

Put simply, "America First" is the entirely unremarkable idea that the function of the American government is to protect and defend the interests of the American people, American culture and society, and the American economy.

There is no addendum or subsection that requires American blood and treasure to be spent on any other country, unless it furthers the interests of America.Our alliances must be of benefit to America, or they should be discarded. And most of all, The conduct of America should be entirely self-governed, without any subservience to outside interests. The United Nations, the World Health Organization, NATO, the EU, OPEC, and a host of other international organizations constantly seek to force American subservience to their rules and mandates. Even sovereign countries try to hold America and Americans to their laws. The UK recently beclowned itself (even more than usual) by announcing that they will prosecute Americans for violations of the UK's draconian on-line hate speech laws.

And here we have a particularly egregious violation of our sovereignty by the EU, which has a bug up its pompous, superior, elitist ass when it comes to big bad American corporations being better and more efficient than European companies.

From Brasília to Brussels: Trump Should Broaden His 301 Offensive.

Earlier this year, iRobot, the company that made the Roomba, filed for bankruptcy and was sold off to a Chinese supplier. The cause was a decision made in Brussels, three years ago, to block Amazon’s rescue offer. Thusly, an American company was regulated out of existence by a foreign bureaucracy. A Chinese competitor inherited the spoils, which is a fair summary of how the European Union’s (EU) so-called consumer protections work in the real world.

iRobot is no isolated case. The EU has built an entire regulatory architecture for precisely this purpose, with two pieces of legislation: the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), marketed as consumer protection but functioning as industrial policy directed at firms headquartered in the United States.

In fact, five of the seven companies Brussels has designated as “gatekeepers” under the DMA are American. European competitors, on the other hand, are usually spared, and Chinese firms face notably lighter compliance pressure. It’s hardly an accident.

The EU and its mandarins are content to be overtaken by China, invaded by 3rd world Muslim hordes, and bought out by Gulf oil money. But competing with America and Americans? That is a bridge too far.

Europe is probably too far gone, but the Western Hemisphere is not, and an American-led regulatory structure that rewards innovation and hard work, and allows market forces to operate, will create the foundation for the economies on our side of the oceans to dominate.

The triad of Marco Rubio at State, Howard Lutnick at Commerce, and Scott Bessent at Treasury, understands this very well, and they should expand their pressure on our hemispheric partners to change the paradigm of the zero-sum economic game that the EU insists upon playing.

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Inventions of the Monsters
Salvador Dalí

Well...okay. It's art.

But my overriding though is: "So what?"